Car-loader.



Patented Aug. I4, |900.

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No. 655,83l.

. Patented Aug. I4, |900. J. L. EGBERTS.

CAR LOADER.

(No Model.)

(Application led Apr. 24, 1900.)

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' JAMES L. 'ROBE-RTS, OF4 PONTIAC, ILLINOIS,

CAR-LOADER?.

SPCIFICATN forming part of 'Letters Patent No. 655,831, dated August 14,1906).

Application filed April 24, 1900.

To @ZZ whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, JAMES L. ROBERTS, a citizen of the United States, residing at Pontiac, in the county of Livingston and State of Illinois, have invented a new and useful Car- Loader, of which the following is a specification.

My invention is an improved car-loader, the object of my invention being to provide novel means for loading grain-cars, vessels, and the like from elevators,whereby the grain may be simultaneously and uniformly thrown to opposite ends of the car or hold of the vessel and uniformly distributed therein.

My invention consists in the peculiar construction and combination of devices hereinafter fully set forth, and pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a side elevation of a car-loader constructed in accordance with my invention, showing the same arranged in operative position in a car. Fig. 2 is a vertical longitudinal sectional view of the same. Fig. 3 is a vertical transverse sectional view of the same looking from the interior of the car. Fig. 4 is partly a top plan view and partly a longitudinal horizontal sectional view of the same.

The supporting-frame 1 of myimproved car-loader is rectangular in form and comprises the sills 2, the ends of which are connected by the transverse beams 3. A longitudinallyinclined chute 4 is supported above the frame 1 and thereon by suitable standards 5. The rear upper end of said chute is open, as at 6, and the lower front or inner end of the chute discharges onto apair of revoluble shovels 7. The said shovels are provided with radial blades or paddles S and disks 9 at the ends thereof, which connect said radial blades or paddles and in connection therewith form longitudinally-disposed cups 10 in the revoluble shovels. The latter are supported on shafts 1.1, which have their bearings in the standards 5, as shown, and said shafts are provided at their rear ends with beveled pinions 12, which are fast thereon. The said beveled pinions are engaged by beveled gear-wheels 13, which are fast on a shaft 14, that is transversely disposed on Serial No. 14,166. (No model.)

the frame l and journaled in suitable bearings 15.

It will be understood from the foregoing and by reference to the drawings that by rotating the shaft 14 the revoluble shovels 7 may be caused to rotate simultaneously in opposite directions,asindicated by the arrows in Fig. 3. Power may be communicated to the shaft 14 from any suitable engine or source ofpower by any suitable means, such as an endless belt and pulleys, and for illustrative purposes I have shown the said shaft 14 as provided with such pulleys, whereby it may be rotated.

The shafts 11 are disposed in nearly-horizontal planes, the planes of said shafts converging with the planes represented by the bottom of the inclined chute 4, and the revoluble shovels are correspondingly shaped, the same being smaller at their outer ends than at their inner ends.

A case comprising an inner wall 16 and an outer wall 17 is disposed transversely at the discharge'end of the chute 4 and above the revoluble shovels. The central portions of said walls are connected together by deflectors 18, the same being disposed above the oppositely-revoluble shovels and in a vertical plane midway between them. Said deflectors are provided with hinged or otherwise movable and adjustable extensions 19, which are adapted to be adjusted toward or from the rods 21 are adapted to secure said adjustable 9 deflectors when the latter are set. It will be understood, however; that other suitable means may be provided for supporting and adjusting the del'lectors, and thereby regulating the throw of the revoluble shovels by changing the radius of the curves described by the grain thrown by the revoluble shovels, as will be readily understood.

In operation the inner end of my car-loader is inserted in a grain-car through one side thereof, the outer end of the loader being supported in any suitable manner, as by a trestle or horse, such as is illustrated at A in Fig. 1. Grain being delivered onto the inclined chute 4 from an elevator or other source and power being applied to the revoluble shovels, so that the latter are rotated, as before described, the grain is caused to flow downward on the inclined chute 4, to be discharged from the latter onto the oppositely-rotating shovels and caught and thrown by the latter to the ends of the car and evenly distributed therein, the throw of the shovels being regulated by means of the adjustable detlectors, as hereinbefore described. Any desired number of the radial shovels may be provided on each shaft as may be required.

Having thus described my invention, I claiml. In a car-loader of the class described, the combination of a pair of oppositely-revoluble shovels arranged side by side, a chute to deliver grain onto the opposing sides of the said oppositelyerevoluble shovels,v and the oppositely-extending deflectors disposed above the said shovels, substantially as described. 2. In a car-loader of the class described, the combination of a pair of oppositely-revoluble shovels arranged side by side, a chute to deliver grain onto the opposing sides of the said oppositely-revoluble shovels and the oppositely-extending deiiectors disposed above the said shovels,said detiectors havin g adjustable extensions, substantially as described.

3. In a car-loader of the class described,

' the combination of a pair of oppositely-revoluble shovels, arranged side by side and having their axes converging toward their outer ends, the opposing sides of said shovels being parallel, a chute to deliver grain onto said 0pposing sides of said shovels,and deiiectors disposed above said shovels, substantially as described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto affixed my signature in the presence of two Witnesses.

JAMES L. ROBERTS.

Witnesses:

JOHN S. MURPHY, M. H. Boor. 

